Hey everyone,
So, I'm at the
Institute Center right now writing emails. There was a carnival in Kiel with
rides, so we checked it out with the Sister missionaries from here and the
Sisters from Elmshorn, and S (a YSA member). We put our wallets, keys and
cameras in one of the Sister’s bags from Elmshorn, and before they left for
home, we took out all our stuff but forgot the keys! So they are in Elmshorn
with our keys to our apartment and to our car. Yeah...but luckily we have a
spare key to the apartment, and we're doing exchanges with Glückstadt Elders
tomorrow so we get our keys from them tomorrow. They are at an appointment
tonight with the Elmshorn Sisters so they'll just give the keys to them to give
to us tomorrow when we see them! Fun! lol.
Thanks a bunch for
your talk, Dad. I'm going to print it and read it later when I have some time!
Mom, I'm sure your talk was great too. Does Jeremy have his still? If he does,
I would love to read it too. This week went really fast. I can't believe you
only have one more week at home, Jeremy! Enjoy it!
I can't remember if
I told you or not but Elder G planted some tomato seeds and flowers in our
apartment. They're growing! We were so pumped when we saw green hah. They are
now about 2 inches tall and looking pretty healthy. I went on exchanges with
the Elders in Delingsdorf on Wednesday. I served with Elder L in Delingsdorf.
He was in the MTC with Elder B (my companion
in Forst), and I actually met him for the first time while I went to Berlin to
meet and pick up Elder B. We had an awesome day together. They don't really
have any investigators besides one person, and so we had a lot of time to do
finding. (About 7hrs). Even though it was a long time it went really fast. We
had a good plan which we made through prayer, and we were excited to see what
was going to happen. We talked to a lot of really cool people who actually took
the time to talk with us. It was a lot of fun and the time went really fast. We
got at least 3 contacts out of that day that they can go back and visit again.
Elder L asked me how I keep motivated to talk to everyone I see. It made me
think and I think the biggest part was seeing what the outcome was going to be.
I mean we prayed, made a plan, and now if we did our part the best we could, we
could see how the Lord's going to bless us.
On Friday we had a
lesson with the new family that we met in a neighbourhood called Hühnaland.
She's the lady that said we could come back and teach her 2 sons. It was so
cool! Her whole family was there and they all talked to us and got to know us.
The Bishop was the best joint teacher ever, and they are excited to find out
more and want to meet with us again! It was a huge blessing. None of them
believe much about God, but they’re not ruling it out. They want to learn more
and develop the belief and faith that they've seen from us and from other
people. It's so cool because that was an area where members prayed for us to
work, and even though we had door after door shut on us, we didn't give up and
found people and are still finding people there. It's really exciting! We also
met with E, and he'll be baptized on May 12th! We prayed for the date and he
agreed with it when we told it to him. He's really happy. He's going to try the
quit smoking program, and then he'll be baptized! Also our Mission President
sent us this link for Chinese investigators! mormonsandchina.org
We watched the General Conference Sunday
afternoon session at church on Sunday. I was so tired because the night before
I was up until 3:30am with a stomach ache. I threw up at 1:30am. I must have
ate some old sandwich meat or something. It sucked, but I'm still alive! My
body was back to normal once I woke up at 6:30, and after I ate breakfast I was
fine again. General conference was really good! I liked the talks a lot.
Other than that my week was pretty normal. The weather here
has been so nice! It was 22° C last week Tuesday! The rest of the week it
hovered around 15°. It's been so nice to see the sun for so long and not have
to wear a coat over our suit coat. Transfer calls are this week on Saturday.
Hopefully I'll stay for a long time! I love it here, and I don't want to leave
again. Elder G has been here since the beginning of October so chances are that
he'll be the one leaving. Guess we'll find out.
I hope you guys have a good week this week! Anyone can be
there for when we Skype. It doesn't really matter to me anymore J Anyways I love you
guys! And I'll talk to you next week. Can't wait to Skype on May 12th!
Love, Elder Luening
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